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  • Bug#1012859: #1012859installation-reports: Ethernet firmware module fai

    From Nicholas D Steeves@21:1/5 to Holger Wansing on Mon Jun 2 01:20:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot

    reopen 1012859
    thanks

    Leslie, please retain me in CC for your replies.

    Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> writes:

    Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@siliconventures.net> wrote:
    OK, I went ahead and did a fresh install of Bookworm and the 10G NIC works. 


    Yes, that's the "crippled system". The above quote is truncated, and
    there is a second server that Leslie Rhorer previously described as
    "dead". In the last email to this bug, the reporter's second sentence,
    about the second system was:

    I went ahead and upgraded the [second] Bullseye system to bookworm,
    and everything seems to work as well as ever, but I still don't have
    the 10G NIC working on that system. The driver for the card is
    bnx2x, but the card currently does not even show up on the system.

    So there are two affected systems. For the record, the specific NIC
    that uses bnx2x but that isn't working is this one:

    Asus PEB-10G/57811-1S 10GbE SFP+ Network Adapter which employs a
    BCM 57811S controller

    Leslie, does your server with this NIC work with up-to-date firmware
    from bookworm? How about bookworm-backports? And in combination with
    the kernel from bookworm-backports?

    Alternatively, would you please test with a TESTING image for the
    upcoming Debian 13 (trixie) release?

    https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

    So I close this bug.

    Apparently there was an issue with the firmware in Bullseye, but since the issue is already fixed in Bookworm, there is nothing more to do here.


    Holger, do you have another source of information that shows that this
    was fixed for the reporter's second server? In the absence of this,
    this bug should not be closed.

    Cheers,
    Nicholas

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  • From Holger Wansing@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 2 09:50:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot

    Hi all,

    Am 2. Juni 2025 01:11:26 MESZ schrieb Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org>: >reopen 1012859
    thanks

    Leslie, please retain me in CC for your replies.

    Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> writes:

    Leslie Rhorer <lesrhorer@siliconventures.net> wrote:
    OK, I went ahead and did a fresh install of Bookworm and the 10G NIC works. 


    Yes, that's the "crippled system". The above quote is truncated, and
    there is a second server that Leslie Rhorer previously described as
    "dead". In the last email to this bug, the reporter's second sentence,
    about the second system was:

    I went ahead and upgraded the [second] Bullseye system to bookworm,
    and everything seems to work as well as ever, but I still don't have
    the 10G NIC working on that system. The driver for the card is
    bnx2x, but the card currently does not even show up on the system.

    So there are two affected systems. For the record, the specific NIC
    that uses bnx2x but that isn't working is this one:

    Asus PEB-10G/57811-1S 10GbE SFP+ Network Adapter which employs a
    BCM 57811S controller

    Leslie, does your server with this NIC work with up-to-date firmware
    from bookworm? How about bookworm-backports? And in combination with
    the kernel from bookworm-backports?

    Alternatively, would you please test with a TESTING image for the
    upcoming Debian 13 (trixie) release?

    https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

    Leslie already confirmed, that in a fresh Bookworm install all is fine.
    Testing with a Trixie ISO might be good, yes.

    So the only issue is on a Buster system, which was upgraded to Bullseye, and is then broken.
    That's an issue with oldoldstable and oldstable, which I think is unlikely to be fixed.

    Did I miss something in my summary?



    So I close this bug.

    Apparently there was an issue with the firmware in Bullseye, but since the issue is already fixed in Bookworm, there is nothing more to do here.


    Holger, do you have another source of information that shows that this
    was fixed for the reporter's second server? In the absence of this,
    this bug should not be closed.

    No, no further information apart from this bug.
    Sorry, if I closed that too early.


    Holger

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